First elected: 6th May 2010
Left House: 30th March 2015 (Retired)
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e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.
If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
These initiatives were driven by Aidan Burley, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.
Aidan Burley has not been granted any Urgent Questions
The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to increase the 150 kg weight limit for class 3 powered wheelchairs used on a public footway to 200 kg; to remove the lower age limit of 14 years on use of class 3 wheelchairs; and for connected purposes
Aidan Burley has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Information on the number of Apprenticeship starts by Sector Subject Area and geography is published in a supplementary table to a Statistical First Release (SFR):
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will continue to require students seeking maintenance loans to meet criteria includeing residency, type of course and place of study.
Between April and June 2013 the Government consulted on proposals to establish a statutory Code of Practice and an independent Adjudicator, which are aimed at supporting pub tenants. The Government received over one thousand one hundred written responses to the consultation on pub companies and their tenants and over seven thousand responses to the online survey conducted in parallel. We are considering the evidence carefully, to ensure that intervention is both proportionate and targeted, and we intend to publish a Government Response to the consultation as soon as we can.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Central government’s direct SME spend increased from £3 billion in 2009-10 (6.5%) to £4.5 billion (10.5%) in 2012-13. In addition, figures provided by major government suppliers indicate that SMEs have benefited from a further £4 billion (9.4%) in indirect spend through the supply chain for 2012 to 2013.
Building on central government reforms to make its business more accessible to small and medium sized businesses, the Government published in Small Business Great Ambition, the next steps in taking forward Lord Young’s recommendations to create an SME-friendly ‘single market’ for public procurement.
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Livingston on 16 December 2013 (Official Report) Column Ref: 453W.
Ofcom is responsible for licensing community radio services and has awarded over 300 licences since 2005. Over 220 community stations are broadcasting throughout the UK.
Applications for community radio licences are considered by Ofcom in accordance with the requirements of the Community Radio Order 2004. In order to treat all applicants equally, and given the high volume of potential applicants, Ofcom's policy is carry out licensing in rounds, inviting applications from each region of the UK in turn. For similar reasons of fairness, Ofcom does not accept an application from specific groups in a region without also accepting applications from across the whole region.
Ofcom invited applicants for the West and East Midlands in the first half 2014, with the closing date for applications on 24 June 2014. Ofcom has not yet confirmed a timetable for further licensing rounds, however Ofcom notes the continuing interest from potential applicant groups, as this will help inform its decisions on future licensing.
A total of 9 licences in the Midlands during the current round of licensing - most recently 3 licences were awarded in January 2015 to stations in the Midlands region. More details can be found on the Ofcom website: http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/current-licensees/awards-round-3/.
Full details on applying for community radio licenses can also be found on Ofcom’s website: http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/apply-for-licence/
Information on the number of permanent exclusions in each of the last three years is published in the “Permanent and fixed period exclusions from schools in England: 2011 to 2012 academic year” Statistical First Release[1]. Information for 2012/13 will be published on 31 July 2014.
Table 1 in the publication shows the number of permanent exclusions in state-funded primary and secondary schools. This information is not available by middle and upper schools, as such schools are deemed either primary or secondary and are included in those counts.
Swimming is part of the national curriculum, and all pupils must be taught to swim at least 25 metres unaided and be able to use recognised swimming strokes by the end of key stage 2 (age 11). It remains compulsory in the national curriculum following the curriculum review.
The Government has committed over £450 million of ring-fenced funding up to and including 2015/16 for primary schools to improve their provision of Physical Education and sport. Schools have the freedom to use the funding for additional provision for swimming but this must be for activity over and above the national curriculum requirements.
The Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) is the national governing body for swimming in England. Their ‘Learn to Swim' programme and award scheme has helped millions of children to swim and they provide a range of resources for schools to support high quality swimming instruction.
The information requested is shown in the tables below.
Further benefit expenditure can be found at the following URL:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables
Housing Benefit expenditure, £ million, nominal | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 |
Cannock Chase | 19.1 | 23.4 | 25.5 | 27.0 | 28.0 |
Staffordshire | 132.5 | 159.5 | 171.5 | 181.8 | 192.1 |
Source: Local Authority subsidy returns.
Information is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number of children aged up to 18 years, registered in primary and secondary care, that were newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 in the former (a) North Staffordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT), (b) South Staffordshire PCT and (c) Stoke-on-Trent PCT, is shown in the following table.
| 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 |
North Staffordshire PCT | * | 10 | 25 |
South Staffordshire PCT | 23 | 23 | 24 |
Stoke on Trent PCT | 15 | 9 | 24 |
Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre – National Diabetes Audit
Notes:
1. Participation in the National Diabetes Audit (NDA), which audits diabetes registrations in primary and secondary care, is not mandatory. The NDA does not have 100% coverage or participation and therefore cannot accurately provide the information requested.
2. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health are the authoritative source for all Paediatric diabetes audit data.
3. 2012-13 data has not yet been published. The NDA currently only holds data for 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12.
4. Information is not available by constituency.
5. The NDA provides data on the number of children aged up to 18 years that were newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which is synonymous to the number of children who began treatment.
6. To protect patient confidentiality, figures between one and five inclusive have been replaced with *.
Officials discuss a variety of VAT issues with the European Commission and the officials of other Member States.
The Government is committed to turning the tide on fraudulent personal injury claims, and we have introduced a raft of measures to discourage unnecessary or frivolous claims and tackle inflated costs. Most recently, I announced on 9 June (Column 27WS)a number of steps that the Government intends to take to reduce the volume of fraudulent claims. These include the power for courts to dismiss fundamentally dishonest claims and a ban on lawyers offering inducements to bring personal injury claims.